Kellogg’s Eggo waffles have screened iconic television commercials for generations.

Google it if you must. Heck, even YouTube it. And if you do find something on YouTube, you’ll more than likely stumble across a pair of six-year-old twins who live just north of Sebringville.

That’s right, the latest Eggo commercial features Renae and Symone Wood, the daughters of Craig and Sara.

The pair sat quietly at the family kitchen table one recent Saturday morning, listening intently as their parents explained the 10-day “experience” they encountered to get them to this point. It included several last-minute trips to Toronto for auditions until an exhausting day of filming culminated with the 30-second commercial, one in a series of four, all of which have a “telepathic” theme, or “inner thoughts” of the participants.

It’s almost perfect when you think about it, as twins have a connection that others – especially adults – cannot explain.

Around the middle of February, Sara explained her sister-in-law from London sent her a casting advertisement looking for six-to-eight year old fraternal or identical twins for a breakfast commercial. Never having done anything like this before, Sara sent in a photo of the girls on a lark, and didn’t initially tell her husband. They got a call on a Wednesday about going to Toronto after school the next Monday for what turned out to be a 15-20 minute audition.

“They did really well. The director came out after the commercial and raved about them, and how well they had memorized their lines,” Sara said, adding it was all done behind closed doors.

The family got a call the next day asking to come back for a follow up on the Wednesday.

This time, nine and 10-year-old twins were part of the second audition, and the family got a call on the Friday asking for a third audition – they had made it to the final four – on the Saturday. The next day, on a Sunday, they were told they got the job.

The family had to zip back to Toronto for wardrobe fitting on the Monday, and filming took place on the Wednesday, March 6.

“We’ve never done anything like this before, so it was stressful,” Sara said.

“Within 10 days, start to finish, it was over,” Craig said, saying they made five trips to Toronto over that span. “It’s a different world, you can tell. For us we just lucked out and got chosen. The odds of us getting the job were slim, you never know until you try.”

Sara and the Wood’s oldest daughter, eight-year-old Myra, unfortunately couldn’t attend the day of shooting so Craig took them, an early start to be on location at a home in Etobicoke for 8 a.m. Filming, plus the audio component of the commercial where the girls had lines to recite, was all wrapped up by 2:30 p.m., much earlier than everyone expected.

“I couldn’t believe all the people and the work that goes into shooting a commercial,” he said, saying the 60 staff on hand were pleased how well the novice six-year-olds did, having to sit in place for hours on the same chair and constantly repeat the takes.

“They were really focused, they really channeled their energy,” said Sara, who admitted the family contemplated cancelling the further they got into the process because everything was so last-minute, throwing their work schedule and home life into chaos.

“They got quite a bit of attention that day, the only kids out of 60 adults,” Craig added. “It was a cool experience.”

Like any youngster, the girls are high energy, their parents admit, as well as easy going and “definitely not camera shy,” Sara said.

“They have a short attention span, they’re high energy six-year-olds, but they did amazing,” she added.

“They listened well and did exactly what they were supposed to do,” Craig added.

Symone said her favourite part of the commercial was eating the fresh, piping hot waffles, especially the sweet syrup. Renae, who has a scene where she picks up and drops a spoonful of cold, lumpy oatmeal back into her bowl while her dad eats the last remaining waffle, was glad she didn’t have to eat that. She liked working with the actor who portrayed the dad, as well as trying on different pyjamas they wore the day of filming.

The Grade 1 students of Bedford Public School in Stratford, the twins are celebrities in their school, as the other primary students and staff have been shown the commercial.

However, the Woods found it initially difficult to explain what a commercial was – their kids don’t watch television, only YouTube and Netflix.

Craig said he searched for old Eggo commercials which date back to the early 1980s, saying “it sparked my memory” having watched them again online.

Would the Woods do it all over again?

“It’s not really the lifestyle we want to pursue,” Sara said. “If something like this would come up again we’d maybe try it, if it was a similar campaign. We’re not interested in getting them into modelling or anything like that. When we were encouraged to seek agents, we were told they wanted us three times a week in Toronto which was just too much of a commitment.

“They are a package deal, the reason they had so much fun is they were doing it together,” she said.

Family and friends weren’t told until the commercial was made public on YouTube, in case Kellogg’s, at the last minute decided not to proceed. But now everyone knows and is just as thrilled as the participants and, of course, Kellogg’s themselves.

The commercial is currently airing thru Kellogg’s online breakfast commercial campaign and will hit social media in May.